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With rookie Stefon Diggs churning out big numbers in three straight games, the veteran Wallace is now playing second fiddle in the Vikings' passing attack. He still has the requisite speed to turn any pass into a long touchdown, but his role is neither big nor consistent enough for him to be considered anything more than a flex play. In fact, if he can't come through against the porous Bears defense this week, owners in standard leagues may consider dropping him -- if they haven't already. ESPN bad
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ZenVulgarity posted:With rookie Stefon Diggs churning out big numbers in three straight games, the veteran Wallace is now playing second fiddle in the Vikings' passing attack. He still has the requisite speed to turn any pass into a long touchdown, but his role is neither big nor consistent enough for him to be considered anything more than a flex play. In fact, if he can't come through against the porous Bears defense this week, owners in standard leagues may consider dropping him -- if they haven't already. I remember seeing that for both Wallace's and Diggs' news blurbs and thinking it was worded ambiguously - was there really nothing else to write about Diggs?
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ZenVulgarity posted:With rookie Stefon Diggs churning out big numbers in three straight games, the veteran Wallace is now playing second fiddle in the Vikings' passing attack. He still has the requisite speed to turn any pass into a long touchdown, but his role is neither big nor consistent enough for him to be considered anything more than a flex play. In fact, if he can't come through against the porous Bears defense this week, owners in standard leagues may consider dropping him -- if they haven't already. I don't get it. Did you play Mike Wallace based on that write up?
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VietCampo posted:I'd be giving him charcandrick west and Eddie lacy but close. I think they may be a bit better than those 2. Not by much. Lacy has been hot garbage this year and even fully healthy off of a bye was outplayed by Starks again. West is probably better but since starting has one total stinker against a good D and good games against "We want the first pick" Detroit and a Landry lead Steelers team. Give it a shot of course I just would not be at all interested in further downgrading my rb corps if I were in the situation your league mate is. Especially with multiple potential starting rbs becoming relevant on the waiver wire this week.
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ZIGfried posted:Not by much. Lacy has been hot garbage this year and even fully healthy off of a bye was outplayed by Starks again. West is probably better but since starting has one total stinker against a good D and good games against "We want the first pick" Detroit and a Landry lead Steelers team. Give it a shot of course I just would not be at all interested in further downgrading my rb corps if I were in the situation your league mate is. Especially with multiple potential starting rbs becoming relevant on the waiver wire this week. I don't see how a starting quarterback has much impact on an opposing running back in this example.
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BigFactory posted:I don't see how a starting quarterback has much impact on an opposing running back in this example. Not particularly an efficient example, but often when teams are on their 2nd/3rd string QBs, their offenses suck and can't sustain drives, so their defense spends 35+ minutes on the field and have a tendency to get gashed because they're overworked. That's not really what happened to West though, the Steelers just aren't that great defensively and West is Pretty Alright. There could be something to be said for teams lacking faith when they're down two QBs and that leading to them playing with less confidence, but that's all anecdotal.
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ZIGfried posted:Not by much. Lacy has been hot garbage this year and even fully healthy off of a bye was outplayed by Starks again.  Starks' 5 carries for 9 yards and 2 catches for 9 yards is outplaying Lacy's 11 carries for 38 and a TD and 1 catch for 9? Looked like they had Starks out to pass block a lot, I guess.
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What you say is true. I should have just pointed out that the actual offer was essentially the same thing my exaggerated example was mocking. "Hey dude I see you only have one great RB left, do you want to downgrade him to charcandrick west? I'll throw in a bench warmer."
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RVProfootballer posted:
Outplayed was the wrong word, they split snaps evenly and both struggled. Once again the point is Lacy is not currently a player you throw into a trade to sweeten the deal.
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Dandy Kaiser posted:Not particularly an efficient example, but often when teams are on their 2nd/3rd string QBs, their offenses suck and can't sustain drives, so their defense spends 35+ minutes on the field and have a tendency to get gashed because they're overworked. That's not really what happened to West though, the Steelers just aren't that great defensively and West is Pretty Alright. There could be something to be said for teams lacking faith when they're down two QBs and that leading to them playing with less confidence, but that's all anecdotal. Time of possession wasn't super lopsided in that game (27 min to 32). And for all of Pittsburgh's flaws, they've been tough to run against this season. Forsett's the only other RB they've given up over 100 yds to on the ground. I think West is ok.
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With the trade deadline 2 weeks away, should I be worried about picking up a backup QB? I have Brady, but I've never played fantasy before so I'm not sure if I should be worried about not having a replacement...
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Thanks guys for telling me not to burn the 2nd WW pick on some scrubs last week, still at 2 and have a good chance at Williams because the first guy is 1-5 and I don't think he even pays attention anymore! Gonna flip him and Rodgers to contenders for picks and be ready to rock and roll next year!
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BigFactory posted:Time of possession wasn't super lopsided in that game (27 min to 32). And for all of Pittsburgh's flaws, they've been tough to run against this season. Forsett's the only other RB they've given up over 100 yds to on the ground. I think West is ok. I'm agreeing with you, I just think there's validity to that reasoning where a lovely opposing QB affects an opposing RB positively, I just don't think that's what happened in this scenario. Teemu Pokemon fucked around with this message at 16:11 on Nov 2, 2015 |
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Kloaked00 posted:Down by 6 with J Stewart vs his TY Hilton to go. Praying for another week of crappy Indy offense It's kinda like I'm playing you. I'm up by 1.77 and he still has J Stewart and Vinatieri to play. And here I thought I had a chance to beat him this week (he's the #1 team in our league). His lineup: Brady - 41.34 pts Blount - 8.40 pts D. Freeman - 19.10 pts J. Stewart - YTP J. Edelman - 23.60 pts AJ Green - 25.30 pts J. Cameron - 4.90 pts A. Vinatieri - YTP Broncos D - 30.70 pts Total: 153.34 My Team: C. Palmer - 41.56 pts M. Ingram - 16.90 pts D. Lewis - 23.20 pts M. Bryant - 6.90 pts D. Thomas - 23.80 pts M. Bennett - 5.45 pts D. Bailey - 13.00 pts Falcons D - 6.40 pts Total: 155.11 Edit: Chill Penguin posted:With the trade deadline 2 weeks away, should I be worried about picking up a backup QB? I have Brady, but I've never played fantasy before so I'm not sure if I should be worried about not having a replacement... You have no reason to grab a backup unless you have bench spots to burn. Brady is an every week must start and I don't see any other QB I would rather start ROS. Thwomp fucked around with this message at 16:12 on Nov 2, 2015 |
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I wasn't going to pick up a TE unless my match was close enough. Now I'm down 40 with my Gore and JStew against his Vinatierri. Seems pretty hopeless but close enough to pick up Fleener. Do I drop Charles Clay, Abdullah, ASJ, or VJax?
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TommyGun85 posted:Cobb 3.7 pts Not for a couple weeks yet but maybe bench him until he proves he can start. He's still the #1 wr in a top 3 offense, Denver just has a brutal defense.
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SurgicalOntologist posted:I wasn't going to pick up a TE unless my match was close enough. Now I'm down 40 with my Gore and JStew against his Vinatierri. Seems pretty hopeless but close enough to pick up Fleener. Do I drop Charles Clay, Abdullah, ASJ, or VJax? Depends on the rest of your roster and league size/WW sparsity, but any of those last three are fine to drop. Big nights from both Gore and Stewart isn't impossible, you absolutely should grab Fleener.
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My main has FA always, made sure to scoop DeAngelo as soon as I saw the replay. About 30 seconds before the Bell owner came out of the bathroom "I miss anything?" Boy, did you ever. I also posted asking about it in the TFF GDT, and not here by mistake. Boy did that rustle some jimmies over there, I forgot that football is totally serious. 
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Y'know, I thought I was doomed with that Brady score and Amendola's worthlessness, but...  Who could've foreseen that ODB would get three TDs and 130 yards and that Hillman would pull through with 2 TDs of his own? I was worried all the way through, since Brandon Marshall's output could've been much worse with Geno at the helm, and the Falcons D was a really bad play on my part (I should've played the Bengals). I think this might be my last week with Wilson at QB though. Cutler got over 20 points against a much harder defense, the Seahawks O-line is garbage and Wilson just isn't producing well, and with Alshon Jeffery back Cutler seems like he'll have better numbers.
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Because we're now at the halfway point for the season, I decided I would go back and re-evaluate how and why I was wrong about everything. First up, bullshit unscientific preseason predictions from August (that were intentionally bold because news was slow and I wanted to stir the pot a bit): Forever_Peace posted:Because news is slow at the moment and I've been thinking way too much about football, here are 15 way-too-bold predictions for 2015. 1. Per-game average extrapolates to 64/755/5, but a nagging injury and some missed time probably make this one a "miss" unless he really picks things up. 2. Cooper looks great (we all knew he would). Agholor not so much, and Abdullah's been having issues too. Poor Perriman never got his chance. Current Rookie top 10: Gurley/Cooper/Yeldon/DavidJ/Duke/Diggs/Karlos/MJones/Rawls/Abdullah. In reality only really Gurley/Diggs/Cooper/Yeldon are the standouts, though Duke gets an honorable mention in ppr for being #2 among rookies in receptions (including WRs and TEs!). I think we've learned not to sell the #2 dynasty pick (Gurley) short. 3. Lol. Welp, his usage looked really promising for a few weeks there (huge red zone threat, lots of two-TE packages). His talent, not so much. What I've learned: don't bank on a guy who couldn't catch a cold much less a football. Still glad for that week 1 TD though (I started him). 4. YASSSSSSS. Ivory owns and looks like a not-so-baby Marshawn when he runs. With Charles, Bell, and Foster all out, he's now RB3 in half-ppr on a per-game basis. 5. Led the team in both carries and yards vs ARI, and PFR counted it as a "start" so I'm calling this one a "hit". My secret: betting that Joique sucks. 6. Can't be bothered to check about the second bit but gently caress you this counts for the first bit. 7. Somehow, despite being impossibly, inconcievably wrong about both of these guys, this one is technically a "hit". I never meant for it to be this way and I am so, so sorry. 8. Buck got close with a 58-yarder against CLE, but this one is already a miss because Zo is out for the season after only clocking a high of 46. What I learned: holy hell backup running backs get hurt a lot too. RIP Khiry/Zo stash. Still thought you were a good move but drat. 9. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA 10. That's a big ol' gently caress YEAH for Julio, but a three-touchdown week 8 finally puts OBJ into the top-5 for the first time this season (before this week, he was ppr WR9). Still a toss-up. 11. Another gently caress YEAH for Fitz. By far my best draft pick of the season. But ARob ain't no slouch either, and with Fitz potentially picking up a high ankle sprain this week, I'm not feeling too comfortable about calling this one a "hit" quite yet. But we did get one thing right: Palmer2Fitz owns bones. 12. WR33 going into this week, but this dud against HOU probably isn't helping his case much. Not looking great. 13. I have hope, but now at least we know what team it'll be for. 14. Still remains to be seen. Charmander has made a pretty good case for himself though, and DWill is almost certainly going to be good with Bell out. 15. AHAHAHAHAHAHA What I've learned: I may be better at evaluating WRs than RBs. Some of these "predictions" are hilariously, horrendously bad. But I've also decided that the process was really fun so who gives a poo poo, it's not like I have to answer to anybody for shooting the poo poo on the forums. ----------- From the writeups of the preseason games I watched: - Blount as a 3-down back is a red herring (yuuuuup) - "Fire Dobson into the sun" (yuuuuuup) - "Every time I talk myself out of liking Bortles, he just lures my right back in. I WISH I KNEW HOW TO QUIT YOU." (still in EXACTLY THE SAME GODDAMNED SITUATION) - "Not touching Jimmy Graham with a 10-foot pole this year" (yuuuuup) - "The CMichael experiment is definitely over." (I guess they thought so too!) - "Tyler Lockett could be the next Devin Hester... but I'm not sure he's cut out to ever be a WR1 with those little baby hands." (Yuuuuuuup) - "Not touching Ladarius Green with a 10-foot pole this year. Rather have Gates" (yuuuuup) - "SD O-line is gonna have issues this year." (yuuuuup) - "The other thing capping Gordon's ceiling is Woodhead... he still has some late-round ppr value" (YUUUUUUUP) - "Stevie Johnson owns." =( - "Nuke owns. Don't care who the quarterbacks are" (yuuuuup) - "Amari Cooper is the real deal. His route running is the best I've seen from anybody this weekend." (yuuuuup) - "Not touching Crabtree this year." (I HAVE ERRED) - "TRich is still real bad. He should be cut imo. Contract makes it easy." (looks like they thought so too) - "John Brown played like a vet." (Love ya Smokey) What I've learned: watching the damned tape is important. I do better when I watch the games and pay attention. You CAN learn something from preseason games if you look hard enough. --------- I've also been doing those weekly WW rankings. Let's see how those have gone. Week 1: Coleman/Beasley/Perriman/James Jones/Moncrief; Sankey/CJ?K/DavidJohnson/KWilliams/Sproles/DWill/Khiry/Hillman/Dunbar/Lewis. (Should have been higher on Jones and Lewis. Made the right call on CJ>DJ for ARI). Week 2: Crabtree/Perriman/Marvin Jones/Beasley/Washington/Benjamin; Freeman/Lewis/Dunbar/Matt Jones/Ronnie/Karlos/Zo/Khiry/DJohnson/Duke/Starks. (Nailed it this week. Everybody was all-in on Starks, but Freeman/Lewis looked like the clear adds to me). Week 3-4: traveling and didn't post. Also for some reason started naming weeks based on the upcoming game rather than the previous games. Week "6": Snead/Jones/LaFell/Aiken/Ginn/Washington; CWest/Duke/Vereen/Knile/McFadden/Sims. (Still listing Washington, but I should have had him higher in retrospect - it just worried me that literally nobody else was talking about him. Nailed the RBs). Week 7: Marvin Jones/Lafell/Crabtree/Diggs/Stevie/Shorts/Rishard; CMike/Sims/Riddick/Coleman/Starks. (Wiffed on Diggs - should have been way higher way earlier. Should have had Sims over CMike. Made the right call fading Starks again). Week 8: Stevie/MJones/Amendola/Washington; Blue/McFadden/RMathews/Duke/Riddick/Khiry/Sims/Cobb. (Still really, really want Stevie to be good - may be overvaluing him. Wiffed on Amendola. Still the only one confident in Washington. Probably should have put McFadden over Blue, but we didn't know Randle would be missing time at this point). What I've learned: I was too high on players I personally owned: Beasley/Perriman/Stevie/CMike. Need to not be afraid to stand by dissenting opinions.
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Thwomp posted:You have no reason to grab a backup unless you have bench spots to burn. Brady is an every week must start and I don't see any other QB I would rather start ROS. That's what I was thinking. I'm feeling pretty good about my squad ROS in .5ppr 6ptd Yahoo: QB: Brady WR: Maclin, Cooper, Diggs, Hilton, Hurns, Evans RB: Gurley, Forsett, Lewis, Hillman TE: Graham, Tamme K: Hauschka (hoping to get away with leaving him in during his BYE, but Lambo & Gould are both available so I can always switch before MNF if necessary) D: Miami
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I played against Drew Brees this week and won. AMA.
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mcmagic posted:I played against Drew Brees this week and won. AMA. Eli2OBJ?
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mcmagic posted:I played against Drew Brees this week and won. AMA. Did you happen to have Eli/OBJ? Or he just had no one else?
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Gonna be a nail biter for me tonight. Down by 30 with Luck and Stewart left.. please Do something daily show 
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I;m tied 177-177 right now (he had Brees and Bell) and I'm done but he has Stewart going. So basically I need Stewart to fumble behind the line and then not play another snap. So that's a loss.
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Well I had this week penciled in as a win, going up against the 1-6 team in 13th place in my league. 60 points from Drew Brees later... And I lost Le'Veon for the year, have no shot at DeAngelo on waivers, and since I finally cut ties with CJ Spiller last week it means right now the best replacement RB on my roster is Christine Michael or Orleans Darkwa. Waiver claims out there for Williams, Cobb, and Riddick I guess? I won't get Williams but maybe everybody forgets Cobb is almost back. Regardless, feels like a season-wrecking week.
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Buane posted:Well I had this week penciled in as a win, going up against the 1-6 team in 13th place in my league. 60 points from Drew Brees later... Is langford owned? He should be starting while forte is out, and his stats looked decent
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ZIGfried posted:Not by much. Lacy has been hot garbage this year and even fully healthy off of a bye was outplayed by Starks again. West is probably better but since starting has one total stinker against a good D and good games against "We want the first pick" Detroit and a Landry lead Steelers team. Give it a shot of course I just would not be at all interested in further downgrading my rb corps if I were in the situation your league mate is. Especially with multiple potential starting rbs becoming relevant on the waiver wire this week. Lacy actually looked pretty decent and back to form last night, he was just at the mercy of the Denver defense and game flow imo. Charcandrick doesn't look like Jamaal Charles but the Chiefs are still giving him over 20 touches a game easily and he's making stuff work. Deangelo Williams, Jeremy Langford, and any other RB still worth anything isn't on the waiver anymore. In fact Langford is on my bench currently. The best waiver wire choices would be karlos Williams or Kendall gaskins. I'd even consider throwing in Langford to cover west bye next week too. But I understand your position. He'd be looking at starting devonta Freeman and Andre Ellington unless he trades for a RB sometime this week as the deadline is soon I think. The way injuries have been happening this year, 80% of the teams in the league don't have great RB depth and are either only have 2 starting RB and a not so great bench option. There's a 0-7 guy who has lynch, deangelo Williams, Jonathan Stewart, and Antonio Andrews, but he's already stated he's not trading. I'm hoarding atm with Gurley, charcandrick west, Giovanni Bernard, Eddie lacy, and Jeremy Langford. So I guess in my league RB replacements your either gonna get trade raped or settle for someone like karlos Williams, Alfred Morris, or Ahmad Bradshaw. So waiver wire is basically picked clean atm unless it's for a crappy handcuff. Yes it's not appealing to give up the #1 RB up but I'm thinking the way this leagues RB situation looks I at least have a chance of him accepting.
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I think the takeaway from last night should be that, holy gently caress that Denver defense is amazing - Lacy looked good, but Rodgers was under an insane amount of pressure all night long. Probably the best defensive unit the league has seen in 10, maybe 12 years. Can't wait to see Denver vs New England in week 12.
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I just tried to add Ben Tate in a 12 team league, but was unable because to since Yahoo still lists him on the Steelers and not as a Free Agent. That's my most pathetic fantasy football moment in several years, if not ever.
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Gyshall posted:I think the takeaway from last night should be that, holy gently caress that Denver defense is amazing - Lacy looked good, but Rodgers was under an insane amount of pressure all night long. People were saying that about Seattle two years ago. Don't overdo it!
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Need to drop one of Peyton Manning and Ryan Tannehill... Who do I keep for the rest of the seasons? (6 pt. throwing TD)
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dewey7788 posted:Need to drop one of Peyton Manning and Ryan Tannehill... I'd keep Tannehill.
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GUISSEPPE PIZZAPIE posted:People were saying that about Seattle two years ago. Don't overdo it! Yeah, I mean Seattle was pretty good too, but LmaoTheKid posted:Wade Phillips is a really good coordinator. and the pass rush/secondary was just lights out. Rodgers looked shook all night long. I was expecting Rodgers to put up modest numbers, but being held to under 100 yards passing is absolute insanity.
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dewey7788 posted:Need to drop one of Peyton Manning and Ryan Tannehill... You should have already dropped peyton tbh
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